Cake-dough cutter.



No. 837,971. PATENTBD DBG. 11, 41906. G. P. sEVoN au 0, Jfmvllvmll.-

CAKE DOUGH GUTTER.

APPLICATION FILED PEB. 26, 1906.

l l l -.vided at its -sides wit legs 6 to support the same at a short distance above-a table or UNITED STATES PATENT ernten.

GUST F. sEVo-NAND OTTO JRVIMAKI, .OF SEATTLE, WASHINGTON.

l CAKE-DouGH CUTTER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 11, 1906.

nnlication led February 26, 1906. Serial No. 302,959.

` subject of theCzar of Russia, and OTTO J AR- VIMAKI, a citizen of the United States, resid- 5 ing at Seattle, in the county of King and State of. Washington, vhave invented certain lnew and useful Improvements in Cake-v Dough Cutters, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to t e accompanying drawings', in which- Figure 1 is a-plan view of devices embodying our invention. F ig. 2 is a vertical longitudinal section of the same, and Fig. 3ds a detail fragmentary view of the box-bottom and cutter-plate.

The invention 'relates to utensils for forming cookies or the like from cake-dough preparatory to their being baked; and its object is the provision ofV simple and convenientlyoperated means whereby such operations may be performed with uniformity and despatch.

With these ends in view the inventionconsists in the novel construction, adaptation,

-5 and combination of parts, as will be hereinafter described, and pointed outl in the appended claims.

' In 4the drawings the reference-numeral '5 ldesignates a receptacle or box having an open top for receivin [the dough and is proother suitable platform. The box-bottom 7 lis doublethat is, made of two sheets;y of metal spaced at a short distance apart and perforated with a number of holes 8 of any desiredshape and in a longitudinal direction. Those of each row are spaced at distances 'apart slightly greater than the distances across the respective'holcs. Slidingly fitted between the two said bottom parts is a cutter-plate 9," provided with holes -10 of the same sizes and shapes as those ofthe Said bottom and so disposed as to register therewithwhen the plate is moved to the full extent of its travel toward the back end of the box. The bottom parts are firmly secured together and to the box along the back and side edges, and to prevent these` bottom parts sepa'ating toward the middle of the oxV rivets 11 are provided, whichlpass through elongated apertures y1-2 of the said plate. Projecting from the front end of the 5 box is a bracket-arm 13, to which is fulcrumed a lever 14, extending through -a 3 guide-slot 15 of another bracket-arm 15. The protruding front end of the plate 9 is connected by a link 16 with the .lever intermediate of the two aforesaid bracket-arms. A loosely-fitted board `17 is provided within the box for a follower. 1

Adjacent to the front end of the box is a stand 18, `in which is rotatably mounted a roll of paper 19, from which the paper is unwound and caused to pass about a guideroller 20, and thence beneath the box to receive the cut cakes as they are dropped from the box.

In operation the receptacle is partially filled with the mixed cake-dough and the follower placed thereabove. By manipulating present the holes thereof in registration with those of the box-bottom when the dough is forced through the holes by its weight'and may be facilitated by the employment of weights 21 upon the follower. When sufficient of the dough has been thus forced out, the cutter-plate is moved outwardly and severs that which is exuded from the mix- ,ture within the box. The. cakes are thereby formed and deposited upon the paper below and which after receiving a batch is drawn rearwardly to bring another portion /into position for others, and so on. The paper after receiving the formed cakes is cut into lengths to-bc placed in a baking-pan 'for coo ing.

l-.Iavlng described our invention, -what we claim as new, and desire to secure by `Letters Patent, isV

combination of the receptacle provided with a double bottom having perforations therein, a slidable plate positioned between the parts of said double bottom and provided with perforations adapted to register with the perforations of the said bottom, a bracket secured to thel end of vthe receptacle, a lever fuicr-umed to the bracket, a connection between the lever and the said plate, a stand for a roll of paper, and a guide-roller in the stand.

2. In apparatus of the class described, the combination f the receptacle provided with a double bottom having perforations therein, a slidable platevpositioned between the parts the said lever the cutter-plate is retracted to A 1.v In apparatus of the class-described, the

of seid double bottom and pi'ovided with l In testimony whereof we afiix our signe- ?erforationsedepted to register with the pertures -in presence of two witnesses.

orations oflthe said bottom, a bracket S'e- GUST F SEVON cured to the end of the receptacle, a lever ful- OTTO JRVNKI 5 erumed yto the bracket, a connection between l vthe level'. and the said plate, a, follower in Witnesses:

said receptacle, a stand for a roll of paper, PIERREBARNES,

and a' guide-roller in the stand. T. H. WARFORD. 

